Director Laetitia Dosch and Cosmos pose for portrait photographs for the film ‘Dog on Trial’ at the 77th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2024. Eddie Peng poses with his dog Xin during an interview for the film ‘Black Dog’ at the 77th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 21, 2024.
In “Dog on Trial,” directed by and starring Laetitia Dosch, Kodi’s character is an unruly dog who bites a woman and is put, yes, on trial, with his life at stake. The film is inspired by a true story and explores themes of feminism as well as the status of dogs. Meanwhile, Taiwanese superstar and “Black Dog” actor Eddie Peng showed up to support Xin, not just as her co-star but also as her owner. In the film directed by Hu Guan, Peng plays a man who’s ordered to remove stray dogs from his hometown before the“Maybe in the future I don’t need to work anymore,” Peng told The Associated Press earlier, commenting on Xin’s newfound popularity. “I’ll just be the agent with my dog.